Photo Feature: The Kids of Bayaha

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 — root

HAITI – The faces of these kids will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Bayaha, the village in eastern Haiti that they call home, is one of the poorest places I’ve ever seen, but these kids, like kids everywhere, played and laughed, skipping down the dirt paths between their homes and splashing water at the well.

The well… it had been broken for years, before the LWI team in north Haiti came across the village. It took them two hours to fix it. The people of the community had suffered years of disease and spent countless hours collecting water from a distant water hole, and everything changed in two hours. It keeps them healthy now, but the well is overworked, so the team is going back soon to provide another.

Take a walk with me through Bayaha.